Art plays a more important role in child development than you might think. Artistic activities help children learn other subjects such as reading and math. It also promotes visual, motor and social development. Using art as a vehicle for expression…
Entrepreneurs are products of their entrepreneurial initiative, as well as their environments. Most entrepreneurs would tell you that having their own personal projects is what they value the most. They’re personally invested in their projects in one way or another. It’s…
These André Gide quotes show his true character. Gide was a genius, a humanist, and a deep thinker. Not only did he make a name for himself as a writer, but he was also renowned for his criticism of French colonialism in…
Sadness is an emotion we can feel at any given moment. It can lead to great discomfort and difficult times. However, we can also use it as a self-help tool. In this regard, we can even turn our sadness into creativity. Many…
Many artists have claimed that their mania and depression have allowed them to connect more intensely with the world through their emotions. That internal awareness has led people to speculate that creativity and bipolar disorder are related. First of all, it’s important…
Psychodrama is a type of therapy that seeks to solve problems through theatrical demonstration. The therapist analyses the participants’ performances to determine the correct course of action. Jacob Levy Moreno, a Romanian psychiatrist, came up with the idea that it was…
The world has never been a peaceful place. Each historic era has had its share of negative events. In the world we live in now, everything seems constantly chaotic. However, there are some Buddhism tips that can help us deal with chaos.…
The creative brain is incredible. It’s playful, full of emotions, free, and tireless. It doesn’t believe in limits. The creative brain chooses to be connected with everything so it can learn from every stimulus. Oftentimes, it doesn’t even know how…
When we go through a complex and painful situation, we may start to believe there’s no way out. We’ve all been in this situation at some point in our lives. Sometimes we become self-absorbed and stop seeing the world around us.…
The great painter Vincent van Gogh said, “If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced”. Unfortunately, as we get older, we tend to listen to that voice more and more. This is why we…
It’s not true that you have to fight boredom using only external stimuli. It’s possible to deal with boredom by yourself and in silence. In fact, it’s a skill that you can master. This skill can increase your creative capacity.
A good sense of humor, the one that knows how to apply irony and wit to a reality that’s often a bit gray, is almost always a sign of intelligence. It’s the art of those who shape what they see…
”In 1933, US president Roosevelt was assassinated and the country did not recover from the Great Depression. The United States maintained an isolationist policy and they did not intervene in the Second World War. Without the intervention from the United…
Creative unlearning offers us something amazing. If we want to recover our true potential, then sometimes there’s no choice but to put aside many of our beliefs and things we have been taught. That way we can try to see the…
Are you someone who believes that being more creative is overrated? Or do you think that humanity needs great ideas? Are you someone who lets others have original ideas, or do you believe that you can contribute something new and…
The world mandala comes from Sanskrit, and it means “sacred circle.” Mandalas are circular symbols that are part of a lot of different cultures. Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, and some indigenous tribes all use them as a kind of artistic outlet to…
Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Freud, Eliot, Graham, Gandhi. The greatest achievements in all of human history are all products of creativity. Seeing loose ends that other people don’t… asking questions and giving answers that no one else has. And that is…
Divergent thinking, or lateral thinking, is about generating multiple creative solutions to the same problem. It is a spontaneous, fluid, non-linear mental approach based on curiosity and nonconformity. In fact, it is also a type of thinking very common in…
For Frida Kahlo, painting was a way of transforming her pain into art. It was her outlet, her refuge, her road to freedom. She refused to be a victim. She understood from an early age that life didn’t need to…
Some call them magic moments, when things “click.” They’re those times when all of a sudden, that thing we dreamed about, searched for, or waited for so anxiously, happens out of nowhere. It wraps you up in its warm arms when…
